American homes and gardens (1910) (18128912356)

Title: American homes and gardens

Identifier: americanhomesgar71910newy (find matches)

Year: 1905 (1900s)

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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Landscape gardening

Publisher: New York : Munn and Co

Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries

Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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$6.75. Tray-stands are only $1.50. A round cottage table, any color, costs $3.75, and a chest of drawers, 6^ inches high, 24 inches long and 20 inches deep can be had for $12.00. (See Fig. 27.) Turning now to the question of chairs, the old- fashioned "Plym- outh Kitchen" (Fig. 23), costs $6.75, and the rocker, $7.50. "The Plym- outh Kitchen" comes in oak or birch, with English flag seats. The "Antique Kitchen," with hand-woven reed seats and ash or birch frames, are $3.50 and $3.75. The latter make excellent dining-room chairs for the port- able house, and also good bedroom chairs, particularly if painted a nice color and rendered bright with cushions. (See Fig. 24.) In the construction of a garage there are several things that must be borne in mind: (i) That the garage is rigid and permanent when erected (although portable); (2) that the interior will be perfectly dry at all times and also protected from the intense heat of summer and the cold blasts of winter; and (3) that it shall have a neat appear- ance when erected. A very excellent house that can be put up in two days by two inexperienced men is made of kiln-dried Washington fir lumber, which is the strongest in use. The building is formed of panels fastened together with bolts, and where the fastening cleat joins the panels a strip of rubber packing is inserted which makes a perfect joint. The patented panel construction produces a house that is boarded inside and outside, with an air space; and a patent hair insulator is placed between the boards. The roof is boarded over and covered with a patent roofing, water-proof, and is capable Fig. 37—A launch that can be bought for $350 of withstanding all kinds of weather. There is no ceiling, JHMHHH and consequently a^^^^^H the rafters are visi- ^^^_^^^^^^^^B These are of '**^'**^^^HB dressed lumber se- ■"■^-" cured by collar beams, which are eight and one-half to nine feet from the floor. The floor is made of one and one-half inch lum- ber overlapping at the cracks. The doors are nine feet wide and eight and one-half feet high. A garage of this description can be purchased for $115.00. The size of this is twelve and one-half feet square, and weighs three thousand pounds. A larger garage (12x15 feet) costs $135.00, and one (12x18 feet) costs $155.00. Another style is of portable steel. This consists of a foundation of wood, uprights of iron pipe, frame of angle iron connected by malleable castings and properly braced; rafters of tee iron, roofing of 24 guage galvanized steel fastened to angle-iron purlin sides, ends and doors of 24 gage galvanized corrugated steel; small windows in each gable, hinged to swing in and operated by a cord; one window on each side, four lights 10x12; double doors, 8x8 feet, with heavy hinges, bolts and iron hasp for pad- lock. The floor is made of concrete, asphalt, cement or cinders. The building is fireproof. The sizes are 9x16, 12x14, 12x18, etc. Flat roofs are cheaper than gable roofs. Another portable wooden garage has a foundation of wood with uprights of iron pipe and iron frame; but has rafters of wood ends and doors of notched and beaded pine. Small windows are placed in each gable and hinged to open inside, double doors are hung in two parts and are fur- nished a two-inch plank floor of hemlock. (Continued on page 242.)

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Fig. 38—A motor boat that costs $280

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